Entries from February 2010 ↓

Links for February 19th from 01:17 to 05:42:

• Observations: Following the evolutionary trail of massive filter feeders – Following the evolutionary trail of massive filter feeders
• CD Overburning on Mac OS X – CD over burning on Mac OS X An interesting article that describes how to burn CD images larger than 700 MB
• C O D E O R G A N – Cool and fun: #codeorgan "plays" any website as music. (via @andygoodridge)
• Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone – Rolling stone on Wall Street Bailout Hustle: These guys really do remind me of French aristocrats before the revolution
• Letter – Just Don’t Call It Politics – NYTimes.com – How things have changed: "Just don't call it politics." via @ediefr
• On MicroSD Problems « bunnie’s blog – Fascinating detective story: how bad microSD cards are sold through second and third tier vendors: (via @gnat)
• Issues – ginatrapani/thinktank – GitHub –

Links for February 18th through February 19th:

• Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system – life – 14 February 2010 – New Scientist – RT @jhagel: Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system – major advance in synthetic biology (via @novaspivack)
• Living Stories can reinvent the article – O’Reilly Radar – Google's Living Stories platform goes open source
• Google Geo Developers Blog: Update on Qualified Developer Program – RT @monkchips Google Kicks off API certification for developers: Geo Web, AJAX Search API, Enterprise Apps
• Private Companies Like SpaceX Look to Take Over From NASA – NYTimes.com – Elon Musk makes the case for private space industry. I'm rooting for him. Let's get this done!
• Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally | 3GSM blog – CNET Reviews –
• Fake foot with smarts boosts walking efficiency – tech – 17 February 2010 – New Scientist –
• Big! Exciting! News: ThinkTank Is Now at Expert Labs | Smarterware –

Links for February 18th from 02:13 to 08:57:

• Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual – O’Reilly Radar – Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual
• TidyTweet.com – Filter your embedded Twitter feed and block Twitter spam –
• Unicode code converter [ishida >> utilities] – Unicode Code Converter –
• Edge: A NEW AGE OF WONDER – The @Edge Dinner last week was a great treat. I like "A new age of wonder" as a way to describe the bio revolution.
• Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Exchange Server 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant – $9.99! Use code DDMES
• Is a cup of tea really the answer to everything – even anthrax? –
• UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public | Copyright Action – If you ever post photos on the internet, read this about your rights: (via @glinner, @piersb, @josiefraser, @MarkPower)

Links for February 17th from 13:31 to 23:50:

• Untitled (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/7/638?ijkey=c0418a7813d77346f1c9b9fb4995ba92048b406a&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha) – King Tut's Terminal Triplet: rare bone disease, broken leg and malaria all contribute to the boy king's early death
• YouTube
  – The Brain as explained by John Cleese – "The Brain as explained by John Cleese" (2 min video)
• Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location • The Register – ugh. Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location,
• Google boss says ‘nobody was harmed’ by Buzz debacle |
  Technology |
  guardian.co.uk – Google boss says 'nobody was harmed' by Buzz debacle
• iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism | Leo Hickman |
  Environment |
  guardian.co.uk – iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism | Leo Hickman
• Slashdot | A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow – Why a warming planet can result in more snow:
• ECHOTONE FILM BLOG » ABOUT –
• Fried Green Olives stuffed with Garlic Confit –
• Free shipping worldwide on all books from The Book Depository –
• Slashdot Story | Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines – Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines

Links for February 17th from 06:57 to 11:37:

• Bayh pere et fils: the opportunity for Evan – James Fallows – RT Jennifer Saffo on Facebook: Fallows' brilliant challenge to Bayh:
  Let's hope Evan Bayh responds!
• Books That Have Shaped How I Think – O’Reilly Media – Rediscovered this oldie but goodie from my archive: Books that have shaped how I think:
• Head First Data Analysis
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Data Analysis – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFD
• Superbugs blamed on shoddy repairs – health – 16 February 2010 – New Scientist – Now Jim Collins at Boston University and his team have found that several different kinds of antibiotics can actively create mutations that confer this multidrug resistance.

  The antibiotics produce toxic molecules called free radicals that damage the DNA of Escherichia coli, and the resulting mutations are locked in when a sloppy repair system fails to put the DNA back together properly. "What doesn't kill them makes them stronger," says Collins. He hopes that blocking DNA repair will slow the emergence of multidrug-resistant superbugs .

• The Convergence of Advertising and E-commerce – O’Reilly Radar – My latest blog post: The Convergence of Advertising and E-commerce
• Struggling Over a Rule for Brokers – NYTimes.com – Financial industry fights requirement that stock and insurance brokers act in their customers’ best interest.
• Twitter / Ticklish Junk: Oh fuck you and the stem y … – Oh fuck you and the stem you rode in on, Brain.
• Detroit Auto-Parts Suppliers Branch Out to Other Industries – NYTimes.com – Detroit Auto-Parts Suppliers Branch Out to Other Industries Good reason for #makerfaire Detroit

Links for February 16th through February 17th:

• Social gamers aren’t looking for games – Thought-provoking pov on social gaming, relevant to #ebooks Social Gamers aren't looking for games Relevant to my dream
• Amanpour: Blog Archive – Defector: Violence threatens Iran unity « – Blogs from CNN.com – RT @realreporting: Christiane @AMANPOURcnn fascinating interview w/ Iran gov. official who defected #iranelection
• Meteorite contains complex organic molecules | COSMOS magazine – Meteorite contains previously unknown complex organic molecules #science #space #SETI #extrasolar #exoplanet #nasa #UFO
• Twitter API Wiki / OAuth FAQ – At last! Twitter is turning off http auth. OAuth will be the only app authentication mechanism via @jystewart
• The Lessons of Dubai – TIME – TIME wags finger at Dubai, says the city is a lesson for the GCC
• The Best Crime Fiction of 2009 – a "Best Book List" – In case you missed it last month: The Best Crime Fiction of 2009 ->
• Actual Size of Great Pacific Garbage Patch Shocks Scientists – Earth911.com – Actual Size of Great Pacific Garbage Patch Shocks Scientists …
• The Seminal » Former Liberian dictator, on trial for war crimes, implicates U.S. con man Pat Robertson. – RT @markos: Wow. RT @redwoodr: Charles Taylor, Liberian Dictator, implicates Pat Robertson in his war crimes.

Links for February 16th from 13:19 to 19:54:

• China orders retreat from risky assets – Telegraph – Big news on the financial front: China orders retreat from risky assets:
• Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses – RT David E. Weekly (FB) Ouch. "Why Facebook & Twitter Will Always be Crappy Businesses"
• Positions available at Instructables – Positions available at @oatv portfolio co instructables.com: UI engineer (remote OK) and a sales manager (SF or NYC)
• Migrating to the Twitter Streaming API: A Primer « Gnip – Delivering the Web’s Data –
• The Daily Maverick :: YouTube turns five, hyperspaces interweb into the future – Insight on how Google is using YouTube to force the adoption of HTML 5 video: (via @slashdot)
• Shapeways | blog: Cooking & molding bioplastics at home: recipes, results & tips –
• Pale Blue Dot: An Alien View Of Earth : NPR –

Links for February 16th from 07:17 to 11:50:

• Australia welcomes China’s investment, if not its influence – washingtonpost.com – How Chinese raw materials investment has changed Australia's economy Big implications for our future, folks.
• A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil and Tim O’Reilly: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2010 – O’Reilly Conferences, February 22 – 24, 2010, New York, NY – Just did great prep call with Ray Kurzweil for our onstage conversation at #TOC #blio, #ebooks, and the #singularity
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly from Buzz – More thoughts (via Buzz) on the Live Avatar Role Playing video I RTd earlier:
• Primordial giant: The star that time forgot – space – 15 February 2010 – New Scientist –
• Aggregate, Filter & Connect for Smaller Firms « Aggregate « Innovation Leadership Network – Nice piece by @timkastelle Aggregate, Filter & Connect for Smaller Firms uses @oreillymedia as a case study. Thanks!
• Alexander Klöpping – RT @baxton6: @timoreilly Your augmented reality dream came true (via @rhymo)
• Don’t turn good scientists into poor entrepreneurs – The S Word – New Scientist –
• A gene for Alzheimer’s makes you smarter – health – 15 February 2010 – New Scientist –

Links for February 16th from 02:09 to 06:52:

• YouTube – Protegez-vous !!! – very cute – but this could SO never be shown in the US
• Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager – Boing Boing – Amused by the link to from the Adobe/HTML5 discussion on Hacker News
• Leaving Our Geological Mark | The Loom | Discover Magazine – What mark will we leave on the Earth that will survive millions of years? It may be ocean acidification.
• Imaginary fiends – The Boston Globe – Crime, fear and cognitive biases. Why do people think crime is rising when its falling?
• How U.S. History is taught could change in N.C. :: WRAL.com – History's just gotten too danged long for North Carolina to teach it all. I'd start at 1977, myself.
• BBC News – Why love birds ‘dance’ to the Sun – Male great bustards point their tail feathers towards the Sun during elaborate mating displays, scientists f..
• Online Diagram Software – Gliffy –
• paperplanes. NoSQL And You – Thoughts On Finding Right Partner In Chrime – Nice thoughts from @roidrage on picking a NoSQL project, rooted in reality.
• Untitled (http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/jsbstash_2092_27447146) – Haha RT @ThatKevinSmith: Fuck you @SouthwestAir:
• TextMate shortcuts you should be using « require ‘brain’ – Awesome list of TextMate timesavers
• Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system – life – 14 February 2010 – New Scientist – DNA Squared: The genetic code in quadruplets.

Links for February 15th through February 16th:

• The dirtiest fuel in the world | The Wilderness Society – The Wilderness Society "The dirtiest fuel in the world"
• Land – Oil Shale and Water Report – Western Resource Advocates – Water on the Rocks: Oil Shale Water Rights in Colorado
• Northern Australia. Impressive river flow. on Twitpic – – Northern Australia. Impressive river flow.
• Hide Your Wallet, My Amygdala-Damaged Friend – [post] Hide Your Wallet, My Amygdala-Damaged Friend
• First brain recordings from flying fruit flies – First brain recordings from flying fruit flies
• NBC Olympics | 2010 Winter Games – NBC Olympics tweet tracker:
• Drinking Milk While Pregnant May Lower Kids’ MS Risk – BusinessWeek – Drinking milk while pregnant seems to lower kids' MS risk: Effects of vitamin D may begin in the womb